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Analysis of Household Food Insecurity and Its Covariates in Girar Jarso Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1700 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2855 (Online) Vol.7, No.3, 2016 Analysis of Household Food Insecurity and its Covariates in Girar Jarso Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia Hana Mamo Ergando 1 Dereje Haile Belete 2 1. Graduate Student at College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa Ethiopia 2. Lecturer at College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture, Addis Abeba University, Selale Campus; Fitche Ethiopia Abstract Food insecurity are the most crucial and persistent problems facing humanity. What so ever the struggle to achieve food security at the household level in the rural areas of Ethiopia dates back a long period, it has remained a challenging goal even today. Making their living on marginal, moisture stressed, heavily degraded and less productive land, households in rural areas of Girar Jarso face persistent food shortages. This study aims to analyze the status and determinants of household food insecurity in four PAs of Girar Jarso wereda. An attempt to fill in the research gap observed in food insecurity studies at disaggregated level in Ethiopia, this study was carried out. The analysis was based on survey data gathered from randomly selected 120 sample rural households using a three stage sampling techniques. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. Data collection was conducted through interview schedules, FGD and key informant interviews. The data collected were analyzed and discussed using descriptive statistics, Foster – Greer – Thorbecke (FGT) indices, logit regression model. The headcount, depth and severity of food insecurity respectively were found to be 37.5%, 10.9% and 4.19%. The empirical results estimated using the survey data revealed that total annual income, total off-farm income and number of oxen at less than 1% level of probability; family size, at less than 10% and access to extension services at less than 5 % level of probability showed theoretically consistent and statistically significant effect on food insecurity among rural households. However, estimated coefficients of age, sex, education, dependency ratio, total size of cultivated land, TLU, access to credit and owning saving account were found to be statistically insignificant in determining household food insecurity in the study area. The findings imply that improvement in food security situation needs to have comprehensive combination of interventions aiming at income diversification in rural areas such as off-farm activities, promoting family planning, promoting education, and commercialization among others. These areas could provide entry points for policy intervention to reduce food insecurity and augment livelihood opportunities. Keywords: Food insecurity, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT), logit regression, Girar Jarso INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Poverty, inequality and food insecurity are the most crucial and persistent problems facing humanity. The current report of State of Food Insecurity in the world pointed out that about 795 million people - just over one in nine- are undernourished in the world. Although progress continues in the fight against hunger, an unacceptably large number of people still lack the food they need for an active and healthy life (FAO, 2015). Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest regional scores in the Global Food Security Index (The economists, 2013) for a number of reasons with an estimated food-insecure people of 254 million, 28.4 percent in 2015, virtually unchanged from 2014. Over the next decade, food security in this region is projected to deteriorate at the aggregate level. The share of food insecured population is expected to rise to just over 15 percent contributing to the increase in food-insecure people, although prospects vary widely among countries within the regions. It is now receiving most food aid, one in every four people, or 23.2 percent of the population (USDA, 2015; FAO, 2015). Ethiopia is a country with significant agricultural potential because of its water resources, fertile land and large labor pool. More than four out of every five Ethiopians live in rural areas and are engaged small-holder rain-fed agricultural production (World Bank, 2014), but the agricultural production and productivity showed a declining trend from the 1960s onwards (Fransen and Kuschminder, 2009). The performance of agriculture in terms of feeding the population is poor and food insecurity along with all key dimensions is predominantly chronic in nature. By early 2016, it is anticipated that 15 million people will require emergency food assistance and exacerbated by the effects of El Niño, the successive years of crop failure resulted in deteriorating agricultural, livestock, food security, and nutrition conditions in north eastern and central Ethiopia (USAID, 2015). Increasingly frequent extreme weather events and natural disasters have taken a huge toll in terms of human lives and economic damage, hampering efforts to enhance food security (FAO, 2015). A number of factors aggravated growing problem of food insecurity in Ethiopia. The deteriorating situation is compounded by 16 Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1700 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2855 (Online) Vol.7, No.3, 2016 high staple food prices (WFP, 2009; FEWS NET, 2015). Adverse climatic changes combined with high human population pressure, natural resources degradation, technological and institutional factors have led to a decline in the size of per capita land holding (Anley et al., 2007). This was worsen by policy-induced stagnation of agriculture, inter-communal conflicts and refugee influxes from neighboring countries and instability in the past resulting in the widening of the food gap for more than two decades, which had to be bridged by food aid (Degefa, 2002; SIDA, 2015). Most famines and food crisis in Ethiopia have been geographically concentrated in two broad zones of the country. The first consist of the central and northern highlands, stretching from northern Shewa through Wello and Tigray, and the second is made up of the crescent of low-lying agro-pastoral lands ranging from Wello in the north, through Hararghe and Bale to Sidamo and Gamo Gofa in the south (Ramakrishna and Demeke, 2002). To combat threats of famine and pervasive poverty and thereby ensure food security for its population, the government strategy has rested on increasing the availability of food grains through significant investments in agricultural technologies, and rural infrastructure. The impacts of these policies, however, have been shadowed as there are still millions of people who experience extreme hunger in the country (Bogale and Shimelis, 2009). Although various policy measures have been designed to address the problem, and despite the implementation of major market liberalization in the country as well as surpluses in food grain production in recent years, there have been reports that food availability still remains at low levels and food insecurity persists (Jemal et al., 2014). In Ethiopia, the status, causes and consequences varies from one area to another, depending on the state of natural resources and extent of development of food shortage (Mitiku et al., 2012). Depending on rain fed agriculture characterized by low productivity, low use of farm inputs, water logging problems, heavily degraded land for their livelihood; Girar Jarso is facing debilitating food shortages. The study area is one of the woredas most affected by recurrent drought and food security problems. It was repeatedly prone to seasonal food insecurity even during the periods of good rain and harvest season. Besides, the woreda has been labeled as typical food insecure area despite various food and nutrition security interventions made by the government and non-government organizations. Due to these facts, this disaggregated household survey analyzes the status and household level covariates that affect the probability of rural household food insecurity at a particular time and through that make recommendations to improve the effectiveness of interventions. As properly fed, healthy, alert and active population contributes more effectively to economic development than one which is physically and mentally weakened by inadequate diet and poor health. 2. RATIONALE OF THE STUDY Despite abundant agricultural resources, Ethiopia is one of the most food insecure and food aid dependent countries in the world. Food insecurity has been the primary concern for the successive governments of the country. The situation is aggravated by the low agricultural production and productivity, which is due to backward production technologies, poor infrastructure as well as unsuitable government policies and strategies. For policy responses, it is crucial to understand how different socio-economic groups especially the poorest segment of the population are affected by chronic hunger and food insecurity. This needs a thorough investigation of the problems associated with household food security. The measurement and analysis of food insecurity is crucial for understanding peoples’ situations of wellbeing and factors determining their food insecurity situations. To bring impact on the food security situation of rural poor, measuring the food insecurity status of the household at local level and identifying its covariates become vital to develop appropriate local level development interventions. Moreover, food security analysis at the household level could
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